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Published on 18/09/2026 – 7:14 GMT+2•Updated 7:19 The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalise monetary policy after decades of keeping interest rates near or below zero to try to encourage more borrowing and spending to counter deflation and pull Japan’s economy out of the doldrums. Inflationary pressures are rising because of the war in Iran, which has sent oil prices soaring in recent months. That is a big negative for resource-poor Japan, which virtually imports all its oil. The rate increase, coming at the end of the two-day monetary policy board meeting, was expected, widely figured into recent…
He beat two other senior police officials in the race: Alicia Malo, head of international cooperation at Spain’s national police, and Linas Pernavas, director of Lithuania’s main anti-corruption law enforcement agency. Ebner began his career with the German police in 1988 and went on to hold several operational positions at the Federal Criminal Police Office, or BKA, eventually serving in the office of its president. He moved to Europol in November 2019 after being appointed as deputy executive director responsible for governance. His portfolio has included legal and institutional matters, and he has also served as Europol’s security coordinator. His…
María del Carmen Abascal, known to everyone as Maricarmen, is no longer a resident of Retiro in central Madrid. On Wednesday, at 87 years old, she was evicted from the flat at 46 Alcalde Sainz de Baranda Street, where she had lived since 1956. This was the fourth attempt to evict her and, this time, court officials went through with it after several postponements. Police cleared hundreds of people who had gathered in an attempt to stop the eviction. Maricarmen’s eviction carried out at the fourth attempt From the early hours of Wednesday morning, dozens of people had gathered around…
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After almost four years closed, the National Theatre D. Maria II, on Rossio in Lisbon, is finally reopening its doors after the biggest renovation in decades. It is doing so with a “cursed play” and with tickets almost sold out. “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, which was on stage at the National Theatre D. Maria II when a fire destroyed the building in 1964, is the production chosen for the reopening. It is a deliberate choice by artistic director and director Pedro Penim and serves as a provocation in the face of the many productions that have been plagued by accidents.…
Some government officials have long suggested that conversations around the U.K. prime minister’s attendance at CHOGM are guided closely by the monarch’s wishes. Burnham and his wife had an audience with King Charles at Balmoral, his Scottish castle, earlier this month. Royal officials say plans are led and decided by the Commonwealth Secretariat and its secretary-general. The king would have good reason to want backup, as the politics of this year’s summit looks destined to be particularly fraught. It is being held in Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean, many of whose island nations are leading a charge for Britain…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 20:30 GMT+2 Observing the events of last July in Ceuta, Spain, many in Athens were reminded of what happened in 2015, when hundreds of boats carrying refugees and migrants arrived on Lesvos and other islands each day. The mass attempt by thousands of people to enter European territory ‘evoked memories’ of the 2020 events at Evros, when thousands also tried to cross from Turkey into Greece. The political debate has heated up, and the migration issue returned to the top of the agenda. Against this backdrop, MPs Dimitris Kairidis and Milena Apostolaki face off in this…
By Euronews Persian Published on 23/09/2026 – 20:13 GMT+2•Updated 20:16 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Iran had been the victim of terrorism and not its perpetrator, in an address that pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat a day earlier to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic. Pezeshkian’s speech marked a striking instance of a foreign leader addressing the world body while their country is at war with the host nation. He opened by holding up photographs of children killed in a missile strike on the Shajarat al-Tayyiba school in Minab on the first day…
Major European stock markets opened slightly lower on Friday as investors took profits after Thursday’s rally and digested another round of monetary tightening by global central banks. The pan-European STOXX 600 fell around 0.2% in early trading. The DAX lost 0.42%, the EURO STOXX 50 declined 0.19%, the CAC 40 fell 0.34%, and the FTSE 100 slipped 0.18%. Investors were also focused on the latest economic data. UK retail sales volumes rose by 0.5% in August and by 2.4% compared with a year earlier, beating expectations. German producer prices increased by a stronger-than-expected 4.6% year on year. Bond markets stabilised…
Qatar Airways is preparing for the busy winter travel season and planning the next phase of its growth. After months of regional disruptions, including the temporary suspension of flights in February, the Doha-based airline has had to adapt its operations to offer passenger support, expand its routes and remain resilient. And now, Hamad Ali Al-Khater, Chief Executive Officer at Qatar Airways Group, said that “passenger numbers have recovered to around 90%-95% of last year’s levels”, with Hamad International Airport currently handling more than 140,000 passengers a day as international carriers gradually return to Doha. This includes British Airways, which resumed…